Got it. Thanks for your thoughts!
I have gone back and forth a number of times with between using the glue method or trying my hand at tabs. I decide to try tabs. I had fusion put the tabs every 1.5 inches and then added a few in some areas but the ones I added are not appearing. The stock is .020 thicker than the part so my plan was to face and machine one side with tabs holding it together so I can flip it and face the back side. Do you think the tabs show below will suffice to simply face the back side? Do you think these tabs are setup correctly?
Fusion File:
Nested Wings.f3z (6.3 MB)
Thanks… Richard
looks like plenty of tabs (I’d skip the ones ‘between the legs’ and just cutout there), but how are you going to hold the pieces that will come loose as you face off the backside? Since you’ll need a fixture to chamfer the back side anyway, you could separate the parts by hacking through the tabs with a saw and then fixture the parts individually and face/chamfer as desired.
Thanks Roy. Too funny. I was just playing around and setting this up to see how it all played out. As it turns out, I don’t have enough in my x-axis travel to use the fly cutter to face these the way I was thinking, so I am now planning to machine all the way through and face them when they are in the soft jaws. I plan on using a jig saw with a metal cutting blade to cut them apart.
